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How the SECURE Act 2.0 Impacts Millennials and Gen-Z
From automatic enrollment to reduce administration costs, the SECURE Act 2.0 offers deep Impacts for Millennials and Gen-Z.
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New to Investing? Here’s a List of ETFs
New to Investing? Here's a List of ETFs
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How to Be Rich In Real Life. Time to Move beyond Cosplaying Wealth.
The TFG gang is all here with another short episode. Wait that's a first in a while. It's a cause for celebration or our episodes run out of sequence (hint). Today we discuss how people project their issues and ideologies online. We also chat about the importance of distancing yourself while creating systems that hold you accountable. We only get one life to live, unless this is the Matrix. Since this is the only life that we are aware of, try not to squander time getting caught up into the lives and the internal issues of others. Your future success depends on it.
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How to Keep Your Investing Enthusiasm High in a Cocaine Bear Market!
With Stocks Crashing and Soaring every other day, I think we are in a “cocaine bear market.” Buckle up, Rolling Recessions + Inequitable Recovery equal a nice recipe for losses.
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How Seven Haitian Americans are Establishing Black Wealth against all Odds
Building wealth is not easier being 1st generation Haitian American. These stories prove that sometimes you have to start a new business too.
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Who are You Building For? I Want to do More than Survive
"Do you want to Survive or Thrive?" In this episode of the Financial Griot, we are taking you to task as a listener and asking "Who are you building for?". Around this time of the year, New Year's resolution are a thing of the past. You are likely back to paying bills and surviving again. The question is why? Lovely, Lawrence and Alainta share their own shortcomings as an olive branch so that you can set forth and do your own introspection. The goal is to reassess your Why and gain an understanding that "although you are entitled to the work, you aren't entitled to the outcome." This is where…
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The Critical Need to Move beyond Black Girl Magic toward Real Wealth
Short of carrying the weight of the world, we demand too much from Black girls. We need to go beyond hashtags and recenter as people.
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Casting Prayers for Opportunities BUT Avoiding Change When It Comes
"Sometimes we stop our own success" In this episode, Lovely and the crew talk about rebuilding our wealth mindset: seeing and acting on opportunity. When the door opens, sometimes you are confronted with your own inaction, fear and limiting beliefs. When that happens, you would need to fight through imposter syndrome. Lawrence is ironically coming clean with his own insecurities.
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Really? Are Modern Black Men Trash?
Just in case you needed something to talk about for Thanksgiving. #GenderWars is the topic du jour, every Jour technically. Seriously, we really need to address this issue moving forward. The Financial Griot crew tackles where the Black wealth is going with one easy fix. As always this is merely a discussion of the issue and not an exhaustive description. We are saving that with a few special guests in future episodes. Our goal is to confront our issues with a mirror in order to force the reflection to take action. Lovely Merdelus does her best to keep Alainta and Lawrence from fighting yet again, with some poignant introspective ideas.…
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The Average US Home in 2020 Spent $61,334. How Much Did We Spend?
The Average American Household earned $84,352 pre-tax and spent over $61,334 in 2020. Unfortunately, they only saved $7,246. How did we do?